Button loop



June 23, 1931. HEATHER 1,811,198

7 BUTTON LOOP Filed Feb. '20. 1930 Fig 'l 7 q IL I GEORGE F3 HEATHER Patented June 23, 1931 GEORGE B. HEATHER, O1 E-ST HAVEN,

CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOE TO THE TIRE NOVELTY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPO- RATION OF CONNECTICUT BUTTON LOOP Application filed February 20, 1930.

This invention relates to button loops particularly adapted for use on garment straps, the loop being specially adapted to be suspended at the end of a strap loop in readiness to be clipped over a button the shank of which may be urged from a button-receiving loop into a smaller retaining loop from which it cannot be unintentionally withdrawn.

The objects of the invention are to provide,

by bending a piece of resilient wire, a reversible button loop of which the wire ends are overlapped; and to provide for such a button loop a novel means for securing the overlapped wire ends for a limited relative sliding movement. lVith these and other objects in view, as may become apparent from the within disclosures, the invention consists not only of the particular form herein pointed out and illustrated in the drawings but readily admits of certain modifications within the scope of what hereinafter may be claimed.

The character of the invention may be best understood by reference to one illustrative 25 device embodying the invention and illustrated by the accompanying drawings in which the Figure l is an upright elevation of the device of which a reversed View would be identical therewith; the Figure 2 is a sectional view of the device on the dotted line 2.2 of the previous figure; and the Figure 3 is an upright elevation of the device illustrating an expanded throat portion.

The device is preferably made from a piece of resilient wire of which a middle portion is bent to provide the suspension loop 1 and the arms 2 and' 3 depending therefrom to provide the associated loops 4 and 5 in axial alignment and having an intermediate normally contracted throat 6. The wire end portions 7 and 8 are flattened in the plane of the loops for relative overlapping within said plane. The overlapped end portions 7 and 8 are provided with the intermediate reduced sections 9 and 10, respectively, normally adapted for relative registration as illustrated by the Figures 1 and 2, the reduced sections providing the shoulders 11. A metal band 12, of less width than the length of the reduced sections, loose- 1y surrounds the reduced sections 9 and 1O.

Serial No. 429,948.

lng moved in opposite directions and thus relatively sliding a distance limited only by the engagement by both of the shoulders 11 with opposite sides of the band 12. Upon the passing of the shank S into the loop 5 the resiliency of the arms'2 and 3 is relied upon to immediately restore the normal condition of the device. The button loop being reversible is adapted to be mounted for use upon a strap to prominently display the front elevation thereof, as illustrated by the Figure 1, or its opposite elevation, not illustrated by reason of the fact that both elevations are identical.

I claim 1.' A reversible button loopcomprising spring arms cooperating to form associated loops'in axial alignment and having an intermediate contracted throat, the ends of the arms overlapping and each being provided with an intermediate reduced section relatively normally registering, and a band of less width than the length of the reduced sections and securing the overlapped ends in limited relative movement in the plane of the loops and against movement out of said plane.

2. A reversible button loop comprising a piece of resilient wire of which a middle portion is bent to form a suspension loop, the remaining portions cooperating to form associated loops in axial alignment and having an intermediate normally contracted throat por tion, therwire end portions overlapping and each being provided with an intermediate reduced section relatively normally registering,

and a band of less width than the length of the reduced sections securing the overlapped portions in limited relative movement in the plane of the loops and against movement out of said plane.

GEORGE B. HEATHER. 

